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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Jasper Jolly

Liberty Steel to cut 200 jobs but create up to 160 more in plant move

An employee passes the electric arc furnace at Liberty Steel's Aldewerke mill in Rotherham
An employee at work at Liberty Steel's plant in Rotherham in 2018. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

Liberty Steel has announced plans to cut 200 jobs in the UK at plants in South Yorkshire and the West Midlands, as industrialist Sanjeev Gupta’s metals group looks to shift production to Rotherham.

The company said on Friday that it would cut 160 jobs at a plant in Stocksbridge, South Yorkshire, and 45 in West Bromwich in the West Midlands as it focused production on the plant in Rotherham, also in South Yorkshire.

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